Staff Profile:Professor Philip T. Smith
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- Professor Philip T. Smith
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- Professor Emeritus of Psychology
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Publications
Smith,P.T. (2009). Ranald Macdonald and statistical inference. British Journal of
Mathematical and Statistical Psychology, 62, 195-199.McCloy,R., Beaman,C.P., & Smith,P.T. (2008). The relative success of recognition
-based inference in multichoice decisions. Cognitive Science, 32, 1037-1048.Smith,P.T., Turner,J.E., Brown,P.A., & Henry,L.A. (2006). The distinct contributions of age of acquisition and word frequency in auditory word perception. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 59, 2122-2135.
Bennett,K.M., Smith,P.T., & Hughes,G.M. (2005). Coping, depressive feelings and gender differences in later life. Aging & Mental Health, 9, 348-353.
Bennett,K.M., Hughes,G.M., & Smith,P.T. (2005). Psychological response to later life widowhood: coping and effects of gender. Omega, 51, 33-52.
Turner,J.E., Henry,L.A., Smith,P.T., & Brown,P.A. (2004). Redintegration and lexical effects in children: Do they depend on the demands of the task? Memory and Cognition, 32, 501-510.
Bennett,K.M., Hughes,G.M., & Smith,P.T. (2003). "I think a woman can take it": Widowed men's views and experiences of gender differences in bereavement. Ageing International, 28, 408-424.
Smith,P.T., McKenna,F., Pattison,C., & Waylen,A. (2001). Structural equation modelling of human judgement. Thinking and Reasoning, 7, 51-68.
Cockburn,J., Keene,J., Hope,T., & Smith,P.T. (2000). Progressive decline in NART score with increasing dementia severity. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 22, 508-517.
Smith,P.T. (2000). A jigsaw puzzle theory of memory. Memory, 8, 245-264.
Turner,J.E., Henry,L.A., & Smith,P.T. (2000). The development of the use of long-term knowledge to assist short-term recall. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 53A, 457-478.
Henry,L.A., Turner,J.E., Smith,P.T., Leather,C. (2000). Modality effects and the development of the word length effect in children. Memory, 8, 1-17.
Trivizas,E., & Smith,P.T. (1997). The deterrent effect of terrorist incidents on the rates of luggage theft in railway and underground stations. British Journal of Criminology, 37, 63-74.
Davis,A.M., Cockburn,J.M., Wade,D.T., & Smith,P.T. (1995). A subjective memory assessment questionnaire for use with elderly people after stroke. Clinical Rehabilitation, 9, 238-244.
Cockburn,J., & Smith,P.T. (1994). Anxiety and errors of prospective memory among elderly people. British Journal of Psychology, 85, 273-282.
Smith,P.T. (1994). Measuring visual neglect. Neuropsychological rehabilitation, 4, 194-198.
Cockburn,J., & Smith,P.T. (1993). Correlates of everyday memory among residents of Part III homes. British Journal of clinical Psychology, 32, 75-77.
Smith,P.T., & Kelliher,S. (1992). Frequency effects in writing shorthand. Language and Cognitive Processes, 7, 67-84.
Smith,P.T., Jordan,T.R., & Sharma,D. (1991). A connectionist model of visual word recognition that accounts for interactions between mask size and word length. Psychological Research, 53, 80-87.
Cockburn,J., & Smith,P.T. (1991). The relative influence of intelligence and age on everyday memory. Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences, 46, 31-36.
Cockburn,J., Smith,P.T., & Wade,D.T. (1990). Influence of cognitive function on social, domestic, and leisure activities of community-dwelling older people. International Disability Studies, 12, 169-172.
Smith,P.T. (1988). How to conduct experiments with morphologically complex words. Journal of Linguistics, 26, 699-714.
Macdonald,R.R., & Smith,P.T. (1983). Testing for differences between means with ordered hypotheses. British Journal of mathematical and statistical Psychology, 36, 22-35.
Smith,P.T., & Macdonald,R.R. (1983). Methods for incorporating ordinal information into analysis of variance: generalisations of 1-tail tests. British Journal of mathematical and statistical Psychology, 36, 1-21.
Smith,P.T., & Sterling,C.M. (1982). Factors affecting the perceived morphemic structure of written words. Journal of verbal learning and verbal behavior, 21, 704-721.
Smith,P.T., & Pattison,H.M. (1982). Models for letter cancellation performance and their implications for models of reading. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 34A, 95-116.
Smith,P.T., Baker,R.G., & Groat,A. (1982). Spelling as a source of information about children linguistic knowledge. British Journal of Psychology, 73, 339-350.
Smith,P.T. (1980). In defence of conservatism in English orthography. Visible Language, 14, 122-136.
Smith,P.T., & Baker,R.G. (1976). The influence of English spelling on pronunciation. Journal of verbal learning and verbal behavior, 15, 267-285.
Smith,P.T., Smith,H., & Jones,K.F. (1976). Word frequency and phonemic similarity in a word avoidance task. Acta Psychologica, 40, 405-421.
Baker,R.G., & Smith,P.T. (1976). A psycholinguistic study of English stress assignment rules. Langauge and Speech, 19, 9-27.
Smith,P.T., & Jones,K.F. (1975). Some hierarchical scaling methods for confusion matrix analysis II: Applications to large matrices. British Journal of mathematical and statistical Psychology, 28, 30-46.
Smith,P.T., Wilson,A.W., & Jones,K.F. (1975). Some hierarchical scaling methods for confusion matrix analysis I: Theory and applications for small matrices. British Journal of mathematical and statistical Psychology, 28, 1-29.
Smith,P.T. (1973). Feature-testing models and their application to perception and memory for speech. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 25, 511-534.
Smith,P.T. (1970). Two experiments with artificial languages. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 22, 583-591.
Smith,P.T. (1970). Communication over noisy channels: applications to the statistical structure of English. British Journal of Psychology, 61, 197-206.
Smith,P.T. (1970). Decision processes in long-term memory. Acta Psychologica, 33, 315-325 (Proceedings of Attention and Performance III).
Smith,P.T. (1969). The non-monotonicity of the psychometric function in recognition memory. Perception and Psychophysics, 5, 329-337.
Smith,P.T. (1969). Coding strategies in language. Information and Control, 14, 72-97.
Smith,P.T. (1968). Cost, discriminability and response bias. British Journal of mathematical and statistical Psychology, 21, 35-60.
Book chapters
Smith,P.T. (2005). Random effects and fixed effects fallacy. In B.S.Everitt & D.C.Howell (Eds.) Encyclopedia of Statistics in Behavioral Science. Vol.4 pp. 1657-1661.
Smith,P.T. (1997). Constraint satisfaction models, and their relevance to memory, aging and emotion. In M.Conway (Ed.) Cognitive Models of Memory. Hove: Psychology Press, pp. 341-364.
Smith,P.T. (1996). Research Methods in the Psychology of Reading. In H.Günther & O.Ludwig (Eds.) Writing and Its Use. Volume 2 Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, pp. 932-942.
Smith,P.T., & Kemp-Wheeler,S.M. (1996). Why do we need emotions? In V.Bruce (Ed.) Great unsolved mysteries of mind. Hove: Erlbaum, pp. 181-210.
Smith,P.T. (1995). Are morphemes really necessary? In L.B.Feldman (Ed.). Morphological aspects of language processing. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum, pp. 365-382.
Smith,P.T. (1994). Thought and language. In R.E.Asher (Ed.) The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, Volume 9, pp. 4610-4615. Oxford: Pergamon Press. Reprinted (1997) in P.V.Lamarque (Ed.) Concise Encyclopedia of Philosophy of Language. Amsterdam: Pergamon.
Bankart,J., Smith,P.T., Bishop,M., & Minchinton,P. (1994). Feature representations in connectionist systems. In G.H.Fischer & D.Laming (Eds.) Contributions to mathematical psychology, psychometrics and methodology. New York: Springer Verlag, pp. 67-74.
Cockburn,J., & Smith,P.T. (1993). The importance of prospective memory to the everyday competence of older people. In HPRT Symposium VI: Health promotion - reaching those in need. Cambridge: Health Promotion Trust, pp. 152-169.
Smith,P.T. (1991). Psycholinguistics and Human-Computer Interaction. In A.Öhman & B.Öhngren (Eds.) Two faces of Swedish Psychology: 1, Frontiers in Perception and Cognition. Stockholm: Swedish Council for Research in Humanities and Social Sciences. pp. 143-152.
Cockburn,J., & Smith,P.T. (1988). Effects of age and intelligence on everyday memory tasks. In M.M.Gruneberg, P.E.Morris, & R.N.Sykes (Eds.) Practical aspects of memory: Current research and issues. Chichester: Wiley, pp.132-136.
Smith,P.T. (1987). Levels of understanding and psychology students' acquisition of statistics. In J.A.Sloboda & D.Rogers (Ed.) Cognitive Processes in Mathematics. Oxford: Clarendon Press, pp. 157-168.
Smith,P.T. (1986). The development of reading: the acquisition of a cognitive skill. In P.Fletcher & M.Garman (Eds.) Language Acquisition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 475-493.
Smith,P.T., Meredith,T., Pattison,H.M., & Sterling,C.M. (1984). The representation of internal word structure in English. In L.Henderson (Ed.) Orthographies and reading. London: Lawrence Erlbaum, pp. 157-168.
Smith,P.T. (1983). Patterns of writing errors in the framework of an information processing model of writing. In D.Rogers & J.Sloboda (Eds.) Acquisition of symbolic skills. New York: Plenum Press, pp. 171-177.
Smith,P.T., & Pattison,H.M. (1980). English shorthand systems and abbreviatory conventions: a psychological perspective. In P.A.Kolers, M.Wrolstad, & H.Bouma (Eds.) Processing of Visible Language 2. New York: Plenum Press, pp. 25-41.
Smith,P.T. (1980). Linguistic information in spelling. In U.Frith (Ed.) Cognitive processes in spelling. London: Academic Press, pp. 33-49.
Smith,P.T., & Groat,A. (1979). Spelling patterns, letter cancellation and the processing of text. In P.A.Kolers, M.E.Wrolstad, & H.Bouma (Eds.) Processing of Visible Language 1. New York: Plenum Press. pp. 309-324.
Baker,R.G., & Smith,P.T. (1978). Spelling patterns and sound patterns in English. In R.N.Campbell & P.T.Smith (Eds.) Recent advances in the Psychology of Language. Volume 2, pp. 361-376.
Smith,P.T., & Baker,R.G. (1977). The psychological reality of English stress assignment rules. In G.Drachman (Ed.) Salzburger Beiträge zur Linguistik IV, Salzburg: Wolfgang Neugebauer, pp. 299-308.
Smith,P.T., & Jones,K.F. (1974). Phonemic organization and search through long-term memory. In P.M.A.Rabbitt & S.Dornic (Eds.) Attention and Performance V. London Academic Press, pp. 547-562.
Gray,J.A., & Smith,P.T. (1969). An arousal-decision model for partial reinforcement and discrimination learning. In R.M.Gilbert & N.S.Sutherland (Eds.) Animal Discrimination Learning. London: Academic Press, pp. 243-272.
Psychological tests
Cockburn,J., & Smith,P.T. (1989). The Rivermead Behavioural Memory Test. Supplement 3: Elderly People. Titchfield, Hants.: Thames Valley Test Company. 15 pages.
Substantial book reviews
Smith,P.T. (1991). Review of R.D.Luce, D.H.Krantz, P.Suppes, & A.Tversky Foundations of Measurement, Volumes 2 & 3. British Journal of mathematical and statistical Psychology, 44, 413-417.
Smith,P.T. (1989). Deadly tenacity and almost diabolical cunning. Critical notice of Stevens' Handbook of Experimental Psychology (2nd Edition). Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 41A, 887-884.
Fletcher,P., & Smith,P.T. (1988). Fluent mechanics. Review of F.J.Newmeyer (Ed.) Linguistics: The Cambridge Survey. Nature, 334, 389-390.
Smith,P.T. (1986). A word to the wise. Review of N.Chomsky, Knowledge of language: Its nature, origin and use. Nature, 320, 493-494.
Edited books
Smith,P.T., & Boakes,R.A. (1987). Human and Animal Memory. Special Issue of QJEP. London: Erlbaum.
Campbell,R.N., & Smith,P.T. (1978). Recent advances in the Psychology of Language. 2 volumes. New York: Plenum Press.
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2011
- McCloy, R., Beaman, C. P. and Smith, P. (2011) The relative success of recognition-based inference in multichoice decisions. In: Gigerenzer, G., Hertwig, R. and Pachur, T. (eds.) Heuristics: the foundations of adaptive behavior. Oxford University Press, New York, pp. 351-362. ISBN 9780199744282
2010
- Beaman, C. P., Smith, P. T., Frosch, C. A. and McCloy, R. A. (2010) Less-is-more effects without the recognition heuristic. Judgment and Decision-Making, 5 (4). pp. 258-271. ISSN 1930-2975
- Beaman, C. P., Smith, P. and McCloy, R. (2010) Less-is-more effects in knowledge-based heuristic inference. In: CogSci 2010 - 32nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, August 11th - 14th 2010, Portland, Oregon, USA, pp. 1014-1019.